Peter Dobson Filmography

A Stranger's Heart

Actors: Samantha Mathis, Peter Dobson, Mary Matilyn Mouser, Kevin Kilner, Gina Hecht, Thomas Kopache

Synopsis: Suddenly diagnosed with a potentially terminal illness, a woman facing the darkest days of her life discovers lightness and hope in the last place she ever expected. Samantha Mathis, Peter Dobson, and Mary Matilyn Mouser star in a romantic drama that highlights how sometimes that once in a Read More

Players

Actors: Freddy Rodriguez

Freezerburn

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: A Night at the Movies

Synopsis: Dentist Gus Sugarman is stabbed in the back of the head by a screwdriver while sitting in a crowded movie theater. Grissom (William L. Petersen) and Catherine (Marg Helgenberger) follow up two possibilities: that the killing was committed by an elusive red-headed woman and that Sugarman was not Read More

Drowning Mona

Actors: Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, Will Ferrell

Synopsis: Rage, jealousy, murder, and Eastern European automotive engineering combine in this offbeat black comedy. Verplanck, NY, is a small town north of Manhattan that has the dubious distinction of being the Yugo capital of America; the ill-fated import compact was first test-marketed in Verplanck, and Read More

Double Down

Actors: Jason Priestley, Peter Dobson, Richard Portnow, David Proval

Synopsis: A tightly-knit foursome of lifelong friends and unrepentant gamblers wage more than money in a winner-takes-all tale of epic proportions from director Mars Callahan. David Zigman (Jason Priestly) always manages to come through and beat the house at the last minute, but when he and his three pals Read More

Riot in the Streets

Actors: Luke Perry, Cicely Tyson, Mario Van Peebles

Synopsis: This off-beat urban anthology offers four different views of the mayhem and destruction that came from the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The first vignette "Gold Mountain," directed by Galen Yuen, centers on a struggle between a traditional-minded Chinese storekeeper and his increasingly uncontrollable Read More

All Lies End in Murder

Synopsis: Having played a cop for several seasons on NYPD Blue, Kim Delaney shows up as a cop's wife in the made-for-TV All Lies End in Murder. Content to bask in the popularity of her highly respected detective husband Daniel (Jamey Sheridan), Meredith Scialo (Delaney) is totally unprepared to confront the Read More

The Frighteners

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Jeffrey Combs

Synopsis: Charlatan Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) has genuine psychic powers, but he doesn't use them to help people. Rather, he generates cases for his supernatural private-eye firm by harassing a group of hapless ghosts (including a dearly departed Wild West outlaw and an undead judge played by John Read More

Norma Jean and Marilyn

Actors: Steven Culp, Peter Dobson, David Dukes, Ashley Judd, Mira Sorvino

Synopsis: Originally made for cable television, this imaginative biopic chronicles the life of Marilyn Monroe (Mira Sorvino), including the years before she changed her name from Norma Jean Baker (Ashley Judd) and was transformed into the screen persona that made her a legendary sex symbol. The movie Read More

Dead Cold

Actors: Lysette Anthony, Chris Mulkey, Peter Dobson, Alina Thompson, Michael Champion

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, a cozy second honeymoon turns into a nightmare when a compassionate young couple saves a lost hunter from freezing to death. Eric and Alicia's ordeal began months before when Eric was shot in the stomach during a car-jacking. Loyal Alicia helped with every step of his Read More

The Big Squeeze

Actors: Lara Flynn Boyle, Peter Dobson, Danny Nucci, Luca Bercovici, Teresa Dispina

Synopsis: In this crime drama with comic overtones, Tanya (Lara Flynn Boyle) is a barmaid who works at a sleazy tavern, while her husband Henry (Luca Bercovici), a one-time baseball player sidelined by a knee injury, divides his time between praying at home and praying at a Catholic mission. Henry is Read More

Quiet Days in Hollywood

Synopsis: This episodic German film utilizes an all-American cast to present a fresh perspective on life in modern-day Tinseltown. In one of the stories, a young woman leaves her lover because he carries a gun and she is afraid of violence. She gets a job working at a posh cafe and ends up involved with a Read More

Forrest Gump

Actors: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field

Synopsis: "Stupid is as stupid does," says Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks in an Oscar-winning performance) as he discusses his relative level of intelligence with a stranger while waiting for a bus. Despite his sub-normal IQ, Gump leads a truly charmed life, with a ringside seat for many of the most Read More

Doppelganger: The Evil Within

Actors: Drew Barrymore

Synopsis: This confusing but enjoyably weird film stars Drew Barrymore (still toying with her good girl/bad girl image) as Holly Gooding, a young woman who apparently stabs her mother to death in New York then shows up on the doorstep of young L.A. screenwriter Patrick (George Newbern), in response to his Read More

Killer Rules

Where the Day Takes You

Actors: Sean Astin, Lara Flynn Boyle, Peter Dobson, Balthazar Getty, Ricki Lake, James LeGros, Dermot Mulroney

Synopsis: Marc Rocco's gritty drama Where the Day Takes You stars Dermot Mulroney as King, a street-smart hustler who acts as a father figure to a motley collection of young runaways. Among the people in his sphere are the young self-destructive drug addict Greg (Sean Astin), self-hating gay prostitute Read More

What She Doesn't Know

Actors: Valerie Bertinelli, George Dzundza, Peter Dobson, David Marshall Grant, Randle Mell

Synopsis: When a district attorney starts an investigation into corruption that leads her back to her own family--rife with police officers--she finds some decisions hard to make. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

The Marrying Man

Actors: Kim Basinger, Alec Baldwin, Robert Loggia, Elisabeth Shue, Armand Assante

Synopsis: Neil Simon forgoes his typical urban East Coast kvetchers and replaces them with sunny Californian kvetchers in The Marrying Man, a film which became a beacon of gossip in 1991 due to the alleged shenanigans of stars Alec Baldwin and {$Kim Basinger), who fell in love during production. Simon based Read More

Undertow

Actors: Peter Dobson, Burtt Harris, Erica Gimpel, Anita Gillette, Greg Mullavey

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Actors: Stephen Lang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Burt Young, Peter Dobson, Jerry Orbach

Synopsis: Hubert Selby's controversial 1964 cult novel Last Exit To Brooklyn is adapted to the big screen by director Ulrich Edel in this drama. The story is set in the early 1950s in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blighted waterfront town of boarded-up storefronts and striking factory workers. Harry Black (Stephen Lang Read More

So Proudly We Hail

Synopsis: In this drama, a group of impressionable students become the unwitting subjects for an evil white supremacist's schemes to twist the teachings of a prominent professor to promote a highly subversive form of neo-Nazism. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sing

Actors: Lorraine Bracco, Peter Dobson, Jessica Steen, Louise Lasser, Patti LaBelle, George DiCenzo

Synopsis: In this tuneful teen drama, two disparate high school students, he a street-wise Italian rebel and she a sweet naive Jewish girl, fall in love while preparing for the annual "Sing," a competition between seniors and the other grades attending Brooklyn schools. It is the caring school music teacher Read More

L.A. Takedown

Actors: Alex McArthur

Synopsis: Producer/director Michael Mann, kappelmeister of the trendy TV series Miami Vice, tried to impose his MTV mentality on Tinseltown with L.A. Takedown. Los Angeles cop Scott Plank is on the trail of master thief Alex McArthur. After McArthur pulls off "the score of a lifetime," the crook and the cop Read More

Plain Clothes

Actors: Arliss Howard, Suzy Amis, George Wendt, Diane Ladd, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: Arliss Howard plays a baby-faced undercover cop, posing as a high school student. Howard is investigating the murder of a teacher, a task made difficult when his own brother (Loren Dean) becomes the primary suspect. Meanwhile, the ersatz student falls in love with Alexandre Powers, the daughter of Read More

Johnny Banco

Synopsis: In this comedy, a casino owner in Barcelona absconds with a gangster's fortune and is chased to Monte Carlo where he impersonates a millionaire. While there he weds a wealthy American widow. When the gangster learns of the marriage, he and the thief's ex-mistress team up and head for Monte Carlo Read More